Litigation
Court cases in the project's archive about laws and policies that affect transgender and other LGBTQ+ people. Each case page links its dockets, its court documents, its opinions and any oral arguments, with the originals on CourtListener. Charts show the cases by issue, year, court and place.
Also: a finding aid to experts who testified for the side defending the laws.
299 of 664 cases match.
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Documents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Christopher Beaulieu a/k/a Crystal Beaulieu1 v. New Hampshire Governor et al. | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2019 | Prisons & detention | Mostly adverse | 1 |
| City of Chicago v. Department of JusticeNo. 1:25-cv-13863 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2025 | 28 | ||
| City of Fresno v. NoemNo. 3:26-cv-01535 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 15 | ||
| City of Fresno v. TurnerNo. 3:25-cv-07070 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 123 | ||
| City of Salem v. MullinNo. 6:26-cv-01340 | D. Or. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 7 | ||
| City of Shoreline v. United States Department of TransportationNo. 2:26-cv-01311 | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2026 | 10 | ||
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. TrumpNo. 1:25-cv-12162 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 184 | ||
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of AgricultureNo. 1:26-cv-11396 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2026 | 94 | ||
| Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. U.S. Department of EducationNo. 1:25-cv-13244 | D. Mass. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | 22 | ||
| Cook v. PC Connection | D.N.H. | District | 1st Cir. | 2010 | Employment | Adverse | 2 |
| Corbitt v. Taylor(MHT) | M.D. Ala. | District | 11th Cir. | 2021 | Identity documents | Favorable | 3 |
| Council for Global Equality v. U.S. Department of StateNo. 1:25-cv-02615 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actions | 4 | |
| County of Santa Clara v. NoemNo. 3:25-cv-08330 | N.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2025 | 181 | ||
| Covenant Weddings LLC v. Cuyahoga County, Ohio | N.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2020 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Public accommodations | 2 | |
| Crosby v. Reynolds | D. Me. | District | 1st Cir. | 2025 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Crouch v. Bowser | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Policing & criminal law | Favorable | 2 |
| Cruz v. Zucker | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2016 | Gender-affirming carealso Health coverage & benefits | Mostly favorable | 19 |
| Dale v. Department of DefenseNo. 1:26-cv-06617 | S.D.N.Y. | District | 2nd Cir. | 2026 | 19 | ||
| De'Lonta v. Fulmore | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2010 | Prisons & detention | Adverse | 3 |
| DeGroat v. Townsend | S.D. Ohio | District | 6th Cir. | 2025 | Military | Adverse | 39 |
| DeGross v. Hunter | W.D. Wash. | District | 9th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Family & parental rights | 2 | |
| Denton v. Thrasher | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2020 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Schools & education | 2 | |
| Department of Justice Administrative Subpoena No. 25-1431-030 | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Federal executive actions, Privacy & medical records | 63 | |
| DeTore v. Local 245 of Jersey City Public Employees Union | D.N.J. | District | 3rd Cir. | 2024 | Employment | Adverse | 2 |
| Diamond v. Owens | M.D. Ga. | District | 11th Cir. | 2017 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 19 |
| Dobre v. National RR Passenger Corp.(AMTRAK) | E.D. Pa. | District | 3rd Cir. | 1993 | Employmentalso Bathrooms & facilities | Adverse | 1 |
| Doctors for America v. Office of Personnel Management | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2025 | Federal executive actions | Mostly favorable | 139 |
| Doe v. Balaam | D. Nev. | District | 9th Cir. | 2007 | Prisons & detentionalso Policing & criminal law | Adverse | 1 |
| Doe v. BedellNo. 1:26-cv-02690 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Speech & religious objections, Family & parental rights | 42 | |
| Doe v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island | D.R.I. | District | 1st Cir. | 1992 | Gender-affirming carealso Employment, Health coverage & benefits | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe v. Cabarrus County Board of EducationNo. 1:26-cv-00752 | M.D.N.C. | District | 4th Cir. | 2026 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education | 14 | |
| Doe v. Community Unit School District 300No. 1:26-cv-05388 | N.D. Ill. | District | 7th Cir. | 2026 | Schools & educationalso Family & parental rights | 1 | |
| Doe v. Department of DefenseNo. 8:25-cv-02947 | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | 7 | ||
| Doe v. District of Columbia | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2016 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe v. Fairfax County School BoardNo. 1:25-cv-01662 | E.D. Va. | District | 4th Cir. | 2025 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Schools & education, Speech & religious objections | 3 | |
| Doe v. KuporNo. 1:26-cv-02723 | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | 2 | ||
| Doe v. Ladapo | N.D. Fla. | District | 11th Cir. | 2024 | Gender-affirming carealso Family & parental rights | Favorable | 447 |
| Doe v. McConn | S.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 1980 | Drag & expressionalso Gender-affirming care, Policing & criminal law | Favorable | 1 |
| Doe v. McHenry | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Prisons & detentionalso Gender-affirming care, Federal executive actions | Unclear | 2 |
| Doe v. Trump | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Militaryalso Federal executive actions | Favorable | 137 |
| Doe v. University Of Idaho | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2023 | Schools & education | 2 | |
| Doe v. Volusia County School Board | District | 2018 | Schools & educationalso Bathrooms & facilities | 2 | |||
| Dr. James Dobson Family Institute v. Becerra | N.D. Tex. | District | 5th Cir. | 2024 | Speech & religious objectionsalso Gender-affirming care, Health coverage & benefits, Federal executive actions | 2 | |
| Driever v. United States of America | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2020 | Prisons & detention | Favorable | 2 |
| Duronslet v. County of Los Angeles | C.D. Cal. | District | 9th Cir. | 2017 | Bathrooms & facilitiesalso Family & parental rights | Mixed | 2 |
| Eagle Forum of Alabama v. Tuscaloosa Public Library Board of Trustees (ND Ala 20 | District | Speech & religious objections | 2 | ||||
| Edmo v. Idaho Dep't of Corr. | D. Idaho | District | 9th Cir. | 2018 | Gender-affirming carealso Prisons & detention | Favorable | 1 |
| Eller v. Prince George's County Public Schools | D. Md. | District | 4th Cir. | 2019 | Employmentalso Schools & education | 15 | |
| Endocrine Society v. Federal Trade Commission | D.D.C. | District | D.C. Cir. | 2026 | Gender-affirming carealso Speech & religious objections, Federal executive actions | 45 | |
| Equal Emp't Opportunity Comm'n v. A & E Tire, Inc. | D. Colo. | District | 10th Cir. | 2018 | Employment | Favorable | 1 |
Each case has one main issue and may raise others (shown as “also”); the Issue filter finds a case by either. Choose a column heading to sort by it, and again to reverse the order. A blank cell means the archive has no entry for that case yet.
The outcome is this project's own coding of how a case turned out, made from the court's record; it is not the court's finding. How it is coded, and how to ask for a correction, is on the About page.
Litigation
Court cases about transgender and other LGBTQ+ people · federal & state courts
Cases tracked
| Case | Court | Level | Cir. | Year | Issue / type | Outcome | Docs |
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Cases by issue
Every tracked case once, under its main issue, split by the coded direction of its final ruling (the same reading as "Reached a final ruling" below): favorable or adverse to the LGBTQ-rights claim, or mixed. The empty part of each bar is cases with no coded ruling at the trial, circuit or Supreme Court stage yet, which is most of them; it is not a claim that they have no outcome. Choose a bar to list its cases.
Reached a final ruling
The coded direction at the HIGHEST stage a case reached — trial-level, circuit-court or Supreme Court only. A preliminary-injunction ruling never counts as final, and a "procedural, no direction" or "unclear" coding is excluded rather than shown as an outcome.
Case duration
Filed to terminated, from real CourtListener docket dates, among cases where EVERY tracked docket has terminated (an open appellate docket alongside a closed district one is pending, not resolved). No stage-by-stage date exists in this corpus, so only this one span is shown; dates cover only the tracked-docket tier — see the coverage note below the numbers.
Cases by circuit
A real geographic map, states shaded by their circuit's case count relative to the busiest circuit (linear). The Federal Circuit has no state territory of its own (its jurisdiction is subject matter, not geography) and so never paints here, but still appears in the list and the table. Select a circuit below for its final-ruling mix.